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When everything gets quiet…
“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” ~Blaise Pascale, French Mathematician, physicist, Inventor, and Philosopher After my mom died, I realized I was almost afraid of silence. It reminded me of the silence after Emma died, which I wrote about last year. When everything got quiet, I knew that’s when the grief would come. I had no other distractions. I’d sit, read my daily meditations from Melody Beattie, write in my journal, and in that quiet, all my feelings bubbled to the surface. So I did everything I could to fill the silence. I’d play instrumental music while I did my morning…
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What’s the best advice you’ve ever been given?
Many years ago, back when I lived and worked in New Jersey… The computer screen sits there ultra-bright, and the cursor keeps blinking at me, taunting me to get my fingers on the keyboard and get the words out already… Yeah, the words aren’t coming yet. It’s been a long day, and my commute back and forth to work always sucks because it eats over 2 ½ hours of my life in New Jersey traffic you can’t even imagine. (Unless you’ve lived there 😉 I can still feel the tension in my shoulders as I try to relax into my chair. I’m sitting in my home office, staring at the…
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I thought I knew my answer…
I finally settled on the couch with a blanket and Ruby, my favorite dog-sitting and TV-watching buddy. It had been a long day. I’d taken Alice to the airport earlier, and she’d be gone for five days. Work was done, dinner was over, and I finally had time to watch The Devil Wears Prada 2. Who doesn’t like Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Stanley Tucci, and Emily Blunt in the same movie? 🙂 If you haven’t seen the movie, maybe skip reading this, cuz there’s gonna be some spoilers. In the movie, Anne Hathaway’s character, Andy, faces a decision about whether to write a tell-all book about Meryl’s character, Miranda Priestly.…
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Why aren’t you helping people do this…
I was on a catch-up call with my dear friend Robert when somehow we started talking about ChatGPT. It feels like the whole world is ablaze with AI, and now they want to harness it. Interesting evolution… and I digress. He told me he was using the paid $20-a-month version. And the more he talked, the more I realized he was basically treating it like a more sophisticated version of Google. Which is totally fine, unless you want it to do more of the heavy lifting in your business. So I started asking him questions. “If you’re using Chat’s Project Feature, have you uploaded your books into your Project?” He said,…